Obligatory vent post to let out some disappointment.
I just wanted to say how terrible this mode is. I don’t know what I’m missing in it. I’ve tried it for about 10 games. It feels so clunky and unfinished, with an unecessary/excessive/imbalanced roster, weird physics, a larger than needed arena, weird rules, and a terrible ult ability. It 100% needed 3 Winstons vs. 3 Winstons (like Lucio Ball) with a more interesting ultimate and some power-ups or something.
I played with 2 buddies tonight and we only got the same 3 stack 5 times in a row. Shows how much people play this, and the psychotic enemy Echo had 5+ hours on it. They only ever rolled out as Genji, Echo, Widowmaker and they /afk’ed at the serve each time. Echo covers the net perfectly because she’s got near-infinite flight and good mobility.
I get it: it’s a limited “who cares” mode and really isn’t worth complaining about. But I’m just so disappointed that “Summer Games” is Lucio Ball and this travesty. There’s an alternate universe out there with some Pokemon Stadium/Mario Party-style mini games like Reinhardt Football, Wrecking Ball bowling, Venture rock wall race, and more. This time of year could REALLY showcase some rotating, fun mini games. But no, we get this horrendous pile of imbalanced donkey poo.
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What weird rules? The only rule is to get the ball over the net before the time runs out on your side.
I actually really like Winston’s beach volleyball and enjoy the variety of characters in it. The only grievances I have with it are the bugs (ball bounces off the floor from time to time, ball falls through the map, melee doesn’t register) and that flying characters can just keep the ball up super high for the entire match.
Other than that, It’s super fun (especially when you spike the ball down).
To each their own ig, I found it pretty fun personally. It’s just the kind of mode you enjoy a couple games at a time throughout the event, it’s a refreshing break from a couple bad matches
I feel that it would’ve been better if, just like Lucio Ball, it was a Winston-only mode.
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Pharah, Genji and Echo are hard meta and Genji is on at least one team every match. If your team doesn’t have at least Genji and the other team does, you straight up lose; 100%, as a fact, you have no chance of winning.
If both teams have Genji, the match goes on FOREVER. I’ve had times where it was served back and forth 30 times. Extremely annoying. Genji should be completely removed from the mode. He has FAR too much reach and his ability to dash and prevent the ball from touching the ground every single time, and to intercept it midair right as it goes over is far too powerful.
The hit registration is also trash, just like in Lucioball. There’s been many times I hit it, it made the sound, and went to the ground anyway.
The mode is also a broken, buggy mess.
The ball can:
Phase through the ground, robbing a team of a point and respawning to be served again.
Bounce on the ground, robbing a team of a point and giving that team another chance to save. (This is common)
Many characters are basically completely useless and nobody plays them.
It’s trash.
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I like the idea of it, but as per usual the randos you get have no clue what they’re doing and what heroes are good for what(i.e aerial heroes guarding the net while mobility heroes clean up balls in the back) , most of the time it just ends up being 3 clowns chasing the ball all over instead of getting into a spot for a pass/spike. Perhaps if it came with a comp mode it might solve that issue at higher ranks?
Also if you’re not playing in your own region don’t even bother because the hitreg is horrible if you’re not, I’m east coast and I played a couple games in a west coast server, despite having only 90 ping the ball would go straight through my hits. It was like this every time sadly.
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